Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-28
PACIFIC COAST.
Miners Striving to Rescue
Their Comrades.
THE PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS.
Great Excitement at the Scene OF
Observation-Disclosures for the
Sufferers.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALt
SAN Francisco, June 27.--The fol
lowing dispatch was received at thu
office of the Gould and Curry mine i
this city this morning:
VIRGINIA CITY, June 27.--9:30A. -
Lanterns have been lowered to forty.fiv
feet below the l200.foot level and wer
returned still burning. There is NJ
smoke coming up the shaft and but yer.
little gas. The rescue in the drift i
is going ahead all right, and we hope t.
connect with the l5OO.foot level within
the next twenty four hours.
LIBERAL DONATIONS.
The board of directors of the Goult
aud Curry mine has subscribed $500 fol
the families of the men who perisned il
the disaster. The Pacific Stock Ex
change donated $3.50.
SOME GOOD WORK DONE.
VIRGINIA CITY, New, June Elk.
citement over the fatal fire in the Goulc
and Curry mine has somewhat abated,
but the majority of the miners have
given up all hope that the imprisoned
men of the l500.foot level are still alive.
The progress so far made in driving
through the wall of adamantine rock
exceeds anything heretofore recorded
in the annals of modern mining, and be-
fore tomorrow morning the fate of the
men will be known. At six o'clock this
evening an incline being sunk to con-
meet with the drift in the Best and
Belcher, where the men are imprisoned,
was down about twenty feet below the
bottom of the vertical winze. About
eight o'clock this evening three drills
will be sent in simultaneously to break
a hole through into the Best and Belcher
drift. One of the three holes
will be drilled on the same grade as
the bottom of the incline, another YER
tieally below the bottom of the incline,
and the D.. third horizontally ahead.
Should either of them fail to connect
with the drift in the Best Il Belcher, the
incline will be excavated few feet
deeper and drills sent in again. 1t will
not require more than one hour to send
the holes in ten feet with the Burleigh
drills, and it is confidently anticipated
that the fate of the men will be decided
before midnight. If alive they can be
communicated with and food sent into
them through the drill hole. The air
sent in is taken as regularly from the
compressor pipe as if men were inhaling
it, and no gas could remain in drift
with such stream of fresh air being
forced into the face of it under such tire
mendous pressure.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT
Ia manifested as the hour wears on
when the fate of the imprisoned men
will be ascertained The vicinity of the
Con. Virginia shaft, through which they
or their dead bodies will be brought to
the surface, is thronged with dense
crowd of people. The relatives and the
families of the imprisoned men and tele.
graph correspondents are the only per-
sons allowed in the building except
employees. When the men are reached
by the rescuing party the news will be
announced by the blowing of whistles
and the ringing of bells.
LATEST REPORTS.
1t ia not probable that the men will
be reach before tomorrow morning,
1t will be necessary to blast two rounds
of holes according to the measurement
Just taken. To do this and clean up
the was to after blasting will require six
hours.